From Notting Hill to the Turtle Diary: Films setted in a Bookstore.

Wonder how many films, esp. English ones, are setted in an oldfashioned-styled bookstore, antiquarian or not. Guess, hundreds. Drama among book-packed shelves maybe be a perfect setting for a superb piece of cinema, a thrilling mystery movie or a heartwarming romantic comedy. Reason why? Ask the scholared film afficionados, they may tell yo;-).

Remember this one? But - worse luck! - I never came across a handsome bookseller guy like Hugh Grant, even sexy-looking in a pink shirt;-). The film is of course Notting Hill with pretty woman Julia Roberts.

Another film setted - partially - in a London bookstore is Turtle Diary (1984)based on a novel by Russell Hoban, an American author in London; the scenario was overworked, enriched with sophisticated dialogues and "pintarized" by British playwright
Harold Pinter; Ben Kingsley is the sensitive and slightly neurotic bookseller, fabulous Glenda Jackson the lonesame and eccentric turtle-loving children´s books author. In the bookstore, the couple meet for the first time (but life comes to a sense not at a bookish place like that but in London Zoo and finally on the beach). The Amazon reviewer
is right: the film is a precious little gem. Watched it on German tv twice and chose it one of my alltime favorites; the film has got its own large Wikipedia article.

Turtle Diary (the movie)at Amazon Marketplace.